Presentation at Goethe Institute Shanghai, July 5, 2012 Raumlabor, an experimental architecture studio from Berlin has been selected to participate in the Shanghai Biennale 2012. On this occasion, two of its members, Benjamin Förster-Baldenius und Florian Stirnemann, came toShanghai. In the presentation they mostly showed their previous projects. They started off by pointing out some…
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_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
Adrian Wong “Troglodyte See the Light”
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Adrian Wong 王浩然: Troglodyte See the Light February 2012, at Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong Wong created a number of speaking mechatronic puppets for this show. The voice was his, exploring untypical and absurd uses of language. The works were ‘packaged’ as funny shaped creatures, which was a good way to engage the visitors. If…
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“Intersection” at JCCAC
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Thomas Lin 練錦順x Liu Yichang劉以鬯 + George Ho左治x Tats Lau劉以達: Intersection 對倒 JCCAC Hong Kong, February 2012 Located in the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, the exhibition had a touch of nostalgia. A video of a smiling face cut into two halves, superimposed by a text/poem, and accompanied by dream-like film music. A three-dimensional ‘model’…
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MadeIn Company “Turbulent”
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MadeIn 没顶公司Company: Turbulent April 27th to May 26th, 11:00-16:00 MadeIn Company Exhibition Space 1F, Bldg 8 , 18 Wuwei Road, Shanghai, PRC MadeIn is an artist collective initiated by Xu Zhen. It poses as an ‘art factory’, a brand, behind which a group of artists are working on projects. The “Turbulent” exhibition consisted of three…
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Zhang Ding “Buddha Jumps over the Wall”
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Zhang Ding 张鼎: Buddha Jumps over the Wall Jun 02- Jul 01, 2012. Shanghart, Top Contemporary Art Centre, Room 101, Bldg. 5, 18 Wuwei Rd., Shanghai At the heart of Zhang Ding’s newest solo exhibition is a set of ‘exploding’ plaster sculptures of animals. The sculptures are filled up with red paint inside, and pierced…
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Lei Hong “Non-geometric study”
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Lei Hong 雷虹: Non-geometric study April 15 – May 14, 2012, Pearl Lam Fine Art, 181 Middle Jianxi Road, Shanghai Lei Hong works with very simple elements to express the dialogue he is having with the materials he is working with. Paintings (some on canvas, some on rice paper) and sculptures are both present in…
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VHILS + “Overlook” at MD Gallery
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VHILS Solo Show + “Overlook” group exhibition (Jonone, JR, Maleonn, Wang Keping, Xu Wenkai, Yang Yongliang) Gallery Magda Danysz, 188 Linqing Road (x Pingliang Road), Shanghai, http://www.magda-gallery.com Gallery MD is a new gallery that opened in a new creative park a few blocks from the Yangpu bridge in Shanghai Puxi. The location is a bit…
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Backroom conversations at ART HK 2012
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Okwui Enwezor, June Yap, Gayatri Sindha, Hans-Ulrich Olbrist, Tam Wai Ping 譚偉平, Cao Fei 曹斐, Chen Chie-jen 陳界仁 Backroom conversations are a series of lectures organized by the Asia Art Archive on the occasion of the ART HK art fair. Same as the art fair, they took place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition…
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Para/site art space Hong Kong: rites, thoughts, notes, sparks, swings, strikes, a hong kong spring. Forms of Criticism.
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April 14, 2012, McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre The new ‘show’ at Para/site art space in Hong Kong takes the form of a series of lectures and discussion roundtables during three April weekends. The April 13/14 series was announced under the ‘Forms of criticism’ topic. Speakers included Lee Weng Choy, Galit Eilat, Pauline Yao…
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Roy Ascott: Technoetics – transmedia art and the future
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Lecture/workshop by Roy Ascott at Xindanwei, Shanghai August 21, 2011, 14:00 – 18:00 Roy Ascott is one of the pioneers of what we call new media art or tech art now. Since the 1960’s he was applying ideas of cybernetics and network theory in his artistic and pedagogic practice, which as he states are both…